Ace Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen sailed into the pre-quarterfinals of their respective singles events after recording tickled victories on the Commonwealth Video games on Thursday.
While two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu routed Maldives’ Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq 21-4 21-11 within the girls folk’s singles first spherical, Srikanth outclassed Daniel Wanagaliya of Uganda 21-9 21-9 within the males’s singles match.
Later within the day, Sen and Akarshi Kashyap joined the senior duo within the spherical of 16 after notching up contrasting wins of their respective opening males’s and girls folk’s singles fits.
World championships bronze medallist Sen used to be up against an opponent higher than twice his age — 45-365 days-inclined Vernon Smeed of St Helena — and the Indian eased to a 21-1 21-6 lift in rapidly time.
However, Kashyap needed to toil exhausting in her opening spherical match against Mahoor Shahzad and made it the following spherical after the Pakistani shuttler suffered an hurt and retired while trailing 1-8 within the 2nd game.
Sindhu will subsequent face Uganda’s Husina Kobugabe, Srikanth takes on Sri Lanka’s Dumindu Abeywickrama, Sen will sq. off against Australia’s Lin Ying Xiang and World number 57 Kashyap will meet Cyprus’s Eva Kattirtzi.
However, it used to be curtains for Ashwini Ponnappa and B Sumeeth Reddy, who suffered a 18-21 16-21 loss to world number 47 Callum Hemming and Jessica Pugh within the opening spherical of blended doubles opponents.
Taking the court docket first, the final model’s silver medallist Sindhu did no longer need her ‘A’ game since the Maldives shuttler used to be no match to her class.
Fathimath produced some resistance within the 2nd game but Sindhu pulled away from 9-9.
Srikanth used to be crestfallen after shedding his singles match against decrease-ranked Tze Yong Ng of Malaysia within the blended body of workers closing but the enviornment number 13 Indian gave the impression to own taken it in his trail as he comfortably beat his rival.
He inclined his inferior-court docket angled fall shots to lawful create to pocket points.
Many of the points which the Ugandan shuttler managed were from unforced errors of Srikanth. PTI ATK PDS PDS
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